Global union leaders to attend court to protest persecution of South Korean colleagues

Posted by Mua Comms on July 24, 2016

Global union leaders will attend a Seoul court next Tuesday, 26 July, to witness the treatment of Cho Sung-deok, one of several South Korean union leaders who have been put on show trials on trumped-up charges.

Cho Sung-deok is expected to be sentenced at 10:00 on 26 July at the Seoul Central District Court House (Room 506), 157 Seocho-Jungangro, Seocho-gu Seoul. Leaders of the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and other trade unions will give an impromptu press conference outside the court immediately afterwards (expected to be at 10:30).

The ITF’s president, general secretary and assistant general secretary are visiting South Korea to witness the sentencing and to visit other unjustly imprisoned union leaders and their families.

For more on the crackdown on legitimate trade union activities in South Korea see http://goo.gl/86ESaF.

You will receive a further press release with more details on 25 July, and can follow the news on Twitter using the hashtag #UnionRightsKorea.

For more from the ITF on this story, visit http://www.itfglobal.org/en/news-events/press-releases/2016/july/global-union-leaders-to-attend-court-to-protest-persecution-of-south-korean-colleagues